Historical Novels

Ten Years Later

Alexandre Dumas

Ten Years Later continues Alexandre Dumas’s sprawling D’Artagnan Romances, picking up the saga in 1660‑1661…

The Missourian

Eugene P. Lyle

The Mississippian is a sprawling historical adventure that places its eponymous hero, Lieutenant‑Colonel John…

Kenilworth

Walter Scott

Walter Scott’s Kenilworth is a historical romance that places its drama amid the Elizabethan court and the…

Wilhelm Tell

Friedrich Schiller

The work is a dramatic play by Friedrich Schiller that opens on the rugged shore of Lake Lucerne, where a…

I promessi sposi. Opere di Alessando Manzoni, vol. 1

Alessandro Manzoni

Il volume raccoglie le prime pagine di “I Promessi sposi”, opera di Alessandro Manzoni, inserita nella…

Westward Ho! Or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the County of Devon, in the Reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty Queen Elizabeth

Charles Kingsley

The work is a sprawling historical romance set in Elizabethan England, beginning with a richly detailed…

The Bride of Lammermoor

Walter Scott

The Bride of Lammermoor is a historical and psychological tale set in seventeenth‑century Scotland, revolving…

The Princess of Cleves

Madame de La Fayette

The Princess of Cleves is a historical‑psychological romance set amid the glittering courts of 16th‑century…

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose

Jessie L. Weston

This edition presents Jessie L. Weston’s prose rendering of the medieval poem Sir Gawain and the Green…

With Fire and Sword: An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia

Henryk Sienkiewicz

This novel plunges the reader into the tangled tapestry of 17th‑century Eastern Europe, where the clash of…

A Friend of Cæsar: A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C.

William Stearns Davis

William Stearns Davis’s “A Friend of Cæsar” is a historical novel set in the turbulent years 50‑47 B.C., when…

Children of No Man's Land

G. B. Stern

Children of No Man’s Land is a wartime novel set in the final months of World War I, focusing on the tangled…

The Story of King Arthur and his Knights

Howard Pyle

The work is a nineteenth‑century retelling of the Arthurian legends, organized into a series of “Books” that…

The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete

Walter Scott

Walter Scott’s The Heart of Mid‑Lothian is a sprawling historical novel set in eighteenth‑century Scotland,…

The Crimson Tide: A Novel

Robert W. Chambers

The Crimson Tide is a sprawling work of fiction by Robert W.

The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni

Alessandro Manzoni

The Betrotted is a historical novel set in 17th‑century Milan, where a simple village engagement is shattered…

Voices from the Past

Paul Alexander Bartlett

Voices from the Past is a quintet of historical novels that each take the form of a journal written by a…

The Prairie

James Fenimore Cooper

The Prairie is the third installment of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales, first published in…

The Works of Honoré de Balzac: About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita, and Other Stories

Honoré de Balzac

This volume gathers three of Balzac’s early forays into the historical novel, each written at a different…

殘唐五代史演義傳

Guanzhong Luo

九命奇冤

Jianren Wu

山水情

Anonymous

Les misérables Tome II: Cosette

Victor Hugo

Le deuxième tome de Les Misérables se concentre sur Cosette, mais il débute par une scène d’une richesse…

Les trois mousquetaires, Volume 1 (of 2)

Dumas, Alexandre; Maquet, Auguste

Ce premier volume des Trois Mousquetaires s’inscrit dans le genre de la fiction historique, mêlant aventure,…